I kinda miss Dubya....seems like a thousand years ago but that ol boy knew how to have some fun.....
Yup, lot's of fun... Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine...
The liberals are always the one enacting the DRAFT which they know will end up with dead poor men. That is how they work out of a depression. Republicans go to war, with a volunteer force, to eradicate the scum of the Muslim religion that is hell bent on killing US. Not all are poor who join the volunteer force, or die protecting US either.
Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since Bob Kalsu, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from specialist to corporal.
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Wait.. you believe that they're over there fighting to protect us from people who are hellbent on killing us? Ok, first, ask yourself why they would be hellbent on killing us? Could it have anything to do with the fact that we've been a foreign power occupying their lands for over 30 years? Then ask yourself if they're actually a threat to this nation.
More importantly, you have a moral responsibility to listen to the words of the most decorated marine in history at the time of his death - Major General Smedley Butler - before speaking another word about the motivations for war. It's only an hour. Do your patriotic duty and listen to the whole thing; at your leisure, of course:
Whoah now, hold on a sec there. While you make some valid points, this stuff about crusading against "foreign Invaders" is horseshit. In lieu of slaughtering westerners, the evil fundie islamists have instead engaged in campaigns of genocide and torture against fellow Muslims and any other groups among them that do not subscribe to their particular beliefs . These are not "foreign Invaders" they are slaughtering, torturing, and raping. These are indigenous people.
So I have to call bullshit. They want to kill us, because we are infidels who do not buy into their evil, disgusting religion, for one, and the "foreign invader" nonsense is just their attempt at a rally cry to pull people to their cause.
For example, bin Laden's favorite little bit of deception was to rally people to him by claiming he was fighting against the western presence in Saudi arabia, and other places. The fact is, it wasn't the presence of the west that bothered him, but the fact that the royal family being in power meant that said Arabia could not be part of the caliphate of bin Laden's design. He did not desire ejection of westerners, ultimately, depsite his constant stream of propaganda.
Bin Laden desired a fundamental, Islamic caliphate , governed by the nauseating horseshit in the Quran. The fact that this required the US to leave Saudi Arabia is incidental.
Period.